Sentence examples for hit upon a formula from inspiring English sources

The producers have hit upon a formula that has lasted 50 years and has proved popular with audiences of all demographics.

After much research, he hit upon a formula for concentrated detergent and the right wrapper, a thin polymer made from polyvinyl alcohol that dissolves in water and is biodegradable.

To judge by the perpetually packed dining room, Mr. Liu has hit upon a formula irresistible in Guangdong, which has been notorious since ancient times for both adventurous eating and irreverent politics.

With his quirky 1997 book "How Proust Can Change Your Life," Alain de Botton hit upon a formula for talking about art and highbrow concerns in a deliberately lowbrow way: the book playfully proposed to read Proust's great masterwork "Remembrance of Things Past" as a self-help book, as a guide to better living.

If Mr. Paul succeeds in winning the Iowa caucus — and especially if he does so by a respectable margin — it will go a long way toward suggesting that he has hit upon a formula that can deal with the electability question.

Will one of the mega-hip, bleeding-edge experimentalists hit upon a formula that propels them into the big time?

Yael Luttwak, a documentary filmmaker, founded the first group during the second Palestinian uprising, more than a decade ago, hitting upon a formula of using women struggling with their weight as a tool for Israeli and Palestinian connection.

Dr Zak's went through two years of research and development and a couple of bakers before hitting upon a formula that tasted, and felt, like proper bread.

This is one reason why artists, when they hit upon a winning formula, stick to it.

She and Mr. Griffin in Chicago have hit upon a promising formula that other directors -- and producers -- can learn from.

The artist has hit upon a winning formula, for the crude materials nicely suggest urbanity and the raw, explosive energy of the music.